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SeOMoz Ranking and manual ranking always differ. And that too by huge. Why?

Seomoz report give my keywords ranking as not in top 50, but when we search keywords manually it comes on first page. yes we do care to remove all cache memory from all browser. Almost all keywords ranking are wrong compared to manual checking.

Is this because you are providing ranking as per country wise while for city (particular small location) my keywords are ranking good.

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You need to perform the search from your side incognito - using Chrome incognito window and without being logged in in any google account - ranking will be very different vs if you run it while loged in in a google account with history and google plus friends and g pluses and browsing history and all.

However, even so, based on location your rankings will be different - especially if your queries have a localisation intent b ut doing the above you will be closer to seo moz ranking results.

As Eyepaq noted, you can check your keywords from an external perspective by using a querty like http://google.co.nz/search?q=keyword&gl=us. This will remove personalization and any geographic biases, so you can see what it looks like from a generic browser.

In the future, we're planning to add city+state specific keyword rank tracking, so you can get rankings for only an individual geography (just be aware that those searches will be inaccurate for folks who aren't local or who have geo-settings turned off).

>> In the future, we're planning to add city+state specific keyword rank tracking, so you can get rankings for only an individual geography

** That will be helpful indeed great. I've talked withs several people that were looking for alternative solutions just to get this type of additional info. With those changes in rankings based on GEO it might be a very good addon - if it's possibile to implement.

As a side-note, somehow unrelated with the above subject - but still on SeoMoz features - is there somewhere a more "scientific" explication on the difference between OSE and the other similar services out there ? There are several questions here on Q and A about the difference in numbers and although I know the basics of those differences - personally, I don't know the engine and strategy behind it.

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